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Harold Abelson

Harold Abelson (born April 26, 1947) is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science and engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation, creator of the MIT App Inventor platform, and co-author of the widely-used textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP), sometimes also referred to as "the wizard book" because of its cover illustration. (From Wikipedia)

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Abelson, Harold: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion (2008), also by Ken Ledeen and Harry R. Lewis (PDF with commentary at bitsbook.com)
Abelson, Harold: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (second edition, 1996, with supporting materials), also by Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman, contrib. by Alan J. Perlis (HTML at MIT Press)
Abelson, Harold: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: JavaScript Edition, also by Gerald Jay Sussman, ed. by Martin Henz and Tobias Wrigstad, contrib. by Julie Sussman (illustrated HTML with commentary at sourceadacemy.org)
Abelson, Harold: Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986), also by Harold Abelson and Andrea diSessa (PDF files with commentary at at MIT Press)

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